Naval Crowns, Rostral Crowns

I’m reading Naevius and it is SO DISTRACTING from my writing, if necessary and relevant.

Agrippa is seen on many early Augustan coins with very funny head gear:

Naevius helps us see how this symbolism (absent from the republican series) fits with Augustan habit of reviving older traditions as a means of legitimating the new regime:

Link to relevant coins in OCRE (more than illustrated here including v unusual use of Agrippa under Caligula, Flavians, and then a restoration type under Trajan…)

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